As part of A flurry of executive orders On Trump’s first day in office, the newly inaugurated president signed an order to rename the Gulf of Mexico into the United States and rename Denali back to Mount McKinley.
“America will regain its rightful place as the greatest, most powerful and most respected nation on earth, inspiring awe and admiration around the world,” Trump said. inauguration speech. “In a short time from now, we will rename the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of America and restore the name of our great President William McKinley to Mount McKinley.”
Alaska Senator Lisa Murkowski, a Republican but frequent critic of President Trump, said she was “very opposed” to restoring the Mount McKinley name.
“Ten thousand years ago, the Athabascans, the indigenous people of this area, gave this mountain its name and called it Denali, which means ‘great mountain,’” she said. “So I would suggest to President Trump, who wants to make everything great, that we already have a great name for it, so let’s talk about it. I’ve already talked to him about it.”
During the transition period, President Trump I vowed to change my name. Gulf of Mexico, Gulf of America. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene said last week she would direct her staff to draft renaming legislation that would effect federal guidance and administration policy.
A name change may be made for federal reference, but other countries are not required to follow suit.
At the time of 2015-President Barack Obama has officially changed his name. Mount McKinley in Alaska, the highest mountain in the United States, was named Denali, its traditional Alaska Native name. Although its official federal name is Mount McKinley, it has long been informally known in Alaska as Denali.
Could Trump Change the Name of the Gulf of Mexico?
According to the Associated Press, the International Hydrographic Organization is working to uniformly survey, map and name all of the world’s seas, oceans and navigable waters. Both the United States and Mexico are members of this organization.
Who owns the Gulf of Mexico?
“It’s our gulf. Its rightful name is the Gulf of the United States, and that’s what the whole world should refer to,” Greene said as she announced plans for legislation to rename the Gulf of Mexico.
However, according to the U.S. Department of State, the Gulf of Mexico maritime border between the U.S. and Mexico is a fixed line, wherever it is located, starting in the middle of the mouth of the Rio Grande River.
For the most part, the United States has maritime jurisdiction over the Gulf of Mexico and Mexico has jurisdiction over that area.
According to the bureau, the Underwater Lands Act (SLA) of 1953 grants individual states rights to the natural resources of underwater lands within three nautical miles from their coastlines to the Atlantic, Pacific, Arctic Oceans, and Gulf of Mexico. This is the Department of Marine Energy Management. The only exceptions are the west coasts of Texas and Florida, where state jurisdiction extends no more than three ocean leagues from the coastline to the Gulf of Mexico.
Olivia Rinaldi
